Kevin Harvick’s 0.020-second margin of victory over Mark Martin in the 2007 Daytona 500 is the 10th-closest overall since the advent of electronic timing in 1993, and the closest in a Daytona 500.

26 of the 52 Daytona 500s have been won from a top-five starting position.

Matt Kenseth won the Daytona 500 from the 39th starting position in 2009, the deepest a race winner has started.

Nine have been won from the pole. The last to do so was Dale Jarrett, in 2000.

16 Daytona 500s have been won from the front row.

At Daytona International Speedway

History

Groundbreaking for Daytona International Speedway was Nov. 25, 1957. The soil underneath the banked corners was dug from the infield of the track and the hole filled with water. It is now known as LakeLloyd.

The first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Daytona was a 100-mile qualifying race for the Daytona 500 on Feb. 20, 1959.

Richard Petty won his 200th career race on July 4, 1984 at Daytona.

Lights were installed in the spring of 1998. However, the race was delayed until October that year due to thick smoke from wildfires. The second Daytona race has been held under lights ever since.

Notebook

There have been 127 NASCAR Sprint Cup races since the track hosted its first race in 1959: 52 have been 500 miles, 48 were 400 miles and four 250 miles. There were also 23 qualifier races that were point races.

Fireball Roberts won the inaugural pole at Daytona.

Bob Welborn won the first race at Daytona, the 100-mile qualifying race for the Daytona 500.

Lee Petty won the inaugural Daytona 500 on Feb. 22, 1959.

Fireball Roberts won the first 400-mile race at Daytona, the 1963 Firecracker 400.

52 drivers have posted poles at Daytona.

Cale Yarborough leads all drivers with 12 poles at Daytona.

Bill Elliott leads all active drivers with five poles at Daytona.

54 drivers have won at Daytona.

Richard Petty leads all drivers in victories at Daytona with 10.

Jeff Gordon has six victories at Daytona, more than any other active driver.

The Wood Brothers have won 14 races at Daytona, more than any other car owner.

17 full-length races at Daytona have been won from the pole, the last to do it was Kevin Harvick in last year’s Coke Zero 400.

A driver has swept both races at Daytona only four times, most recently by Bobby Allison in 1982.

NASCAR in Florida

There have been 165 NASCAR Sprint Cup races in Florida.

161 drivers in NASCAR’s three national series have their home state recorded as Florida.

There have been nine race winners whose hometown is Florida in NASCAR’s three national series:

2016 Rundown· Four wins, 17 top fives, 24 top 10s,· Led 1378 laps· Average Finish of 11.6Homestead-Miami Speedway Outlook:· One win, two top fives, four top 10s· Average finish of 21.091, 23rd-best· Average Running Position of 14.792, 13th-best· Driver Rating of 95.5, eighth-best· 1962 Laps in the Top 15 (66.8), eighth-most· 447 Quality Passes, 10th-most